DAVID HEATH BRINGS NEW BILL TO PARLIAMENT
11.22.00am GMT Fri 18th Dec 2009
Local MP David Heath, will today (16th December) introduce his new bill to Parliament on transport for school children. Mr Heath was drawn in the ballot for the second time in November this year. Last year David took on the Fuel Poverty Bill which received wide-cross party support.
The Bill, entitled the "School Transport Bill" has two main purposes;
Mr Heath said:
"As a rural MP I have found that every year many of my constituents find that they fall just the wrong side of the distance limits for their children to receive transport to school. Those limits were decided back in 1944, when road conditions were very different. At the same time, every school has massive congestion every morning and evening as parents drive their children in their own cars.
I think the system in America, where distinctive yellow school buses are available to every child living more than a mile from their school, is a better way of providing for the needs of children, safer for all concerned, and better for the environment.
That's why I'm introducing my bill. Realistically, it is unlikely to make it to the statute book in the short time before the next election, but I want to raise an issue which I think is important to many of my constituents, and which cries out for a change in the current law."
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